NWA, Coarse Octahedrite
This ~1 kilogram heat shield has some unusual features.
NWA, Hexahedrite
This is an oriented heat-shield with a few rhabdites visible on its surface (see last photo, center). So, it’s a IIAB, hexahedrite. …
NWA, Oriented Iron
This 267.5 gram heat-shield came from Aras Jonikas. When I first saw photos, it looked so smooth and round that I thought …
NWA 3197, anomalous howardite
This odd meteorite is a mix of a few different things: the typical HED eucritic and diogenitic material make up most of …
NWA 978, R3.8
There’s not much in the Meteoritical Bulletin other than the basic information: R3.8, S3, W2, total known weight: 722 grams. Of note: …
NWA 3159/6964, eucritic impact melt
This is a stunning meteorite. It is comprised of a mess of light eucritic clasts surrounded by rivers of vesicular black melt. …
NWA 5744, Lunar troctolite
This stone is one of many pairings to NWA 5744 & others. It is a granulitic, troctolitic breccia: -a “troctolite” is a …
NWA 6470, anorthositic regolith breccia
This wonderful meteorite is comprised mostly of vitrified 4.3 billion year old Lunar highlands rock. It’s a complex breccia with at least …
NWA 6497, polymict eucrite
This stone came already-cut from a dealer. It weighs 44.6 grams and is a brecciated eucrite. Of note — some clasts were …
NWA 7022, Lunar feldspathic breccia
The fusion-crusted and oriented ~385 gram main mass of Northwest Africa 7022 displays the meteorite’s two lithologies beautifully. The meteorite is a …